Only a few more hours until the last of the big three has its big event (Google i/o, after WWDC and Microsoft's Surface and WP8 events). They will most likely announce a Nexus tablet, as well as Android 4.1, Jelly Bean. While many of you are still on Gingerbread with your top-of-the-line phones - let me poke a few eyes out with mikegapinski's Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich port... To the Samsung Wave. Dual-booting Bada 2 and ICS, right here.

I expect that charging a battery is a hardware function that will work independent of software.
I expect that a mobile device can be used as a mobile device.
I expect that an OS-maker will first focus on getting hardware to work and later on getting software to work.

and I expect that when somebody says "Openness. It works." a better example is given than this to make people enthusiastic about openness.

This is nothing more than a hobby project. Impressive, cool, but unusable for daily use

Same was true for Linux, Apache, Python and so many open source projects.
And yet, they eventually becomes very usable for daily use, as testified by millions of Internet servers, or smartphones or the billions of web pages served by Apache every day.

Unusable is the initial step of any project, open or closed.
Get over it.

I completely agree. These are actually all great examples of "what openness looks like" and they have changed the (software)world.

I am not complaining about this project. It is a nice hobby-project that some people will learn a lot from and that will give some other people a good time playing around with another OS.

I am complaining about picking this as an example of what openness looks like. Because if we would show people this example they would all turn their back on openness and say "closed gives us working stuff, open is far inferior".